Heh..... Yep, you're right. I only use Firefox for recording content like this, so it only showed up for me when configuring TrueNAS. I assumed it was a feature of the OS, not the browser :-D
@@tehcybernoob5011 Who do you mean by 'he' ? Jeff from Craft computing is a ex-network Administrator and a free content creator. As for the guy named 'Truenas and Freenas' tho, i don't know who he is. Hope i could help you with your question.
I guess they will fix small things eventually, the moment you have to drop to command line there is a problem with the software, seems an easy fix really (a minor thing that's never been fixed by a gui tick box)
8:52 Nononononnononono. Leave primary user at craft, use aux groups for additional group memberships. I mean, if you only have 1 user on your TrueNAS Core machine, that's probably okay...? Maybe? But when you need more than 1 user, you really want to dive into the permissions a little bit. For a basic, multi-user TrueNAS Core setup: Step 0. Create your datasets. This is the step that everyone seems to ignore. Don't share out your base dataset. Create additional datasets for different purposes, like home directories, document file shares vs video file shares, etc. This will make your life so much easier down the road with permission, snapshots, etc. Step 1. Create three groups, lowsec, medsec, highsec. The highsec group also gets medsec and lowsec. The medsec group also gets lowsec. This way you only need to assign one security group to each user, and they have access to all the things at their security level and below. Step 2. Create your users. Give them an aux group of lowsec, medsec, or highsec. Make sure you give them a home directory to work with. Again, this will make your life easier down the road. Step 3. In, I believe it is Storage, you have the option to set the owner, owning group, and permissions for each dataset. Step 4-n. Set up your network share(s) Step n+1. Have a beer. This is a pretty basic permissions setup for a NAS. So much data these days does not fit into a typical "low/medium/high" security model. It's far more nuanced than that. However, this should be effective for a good chunk of the home and home office users. But it's definitely worth while knowing how the *nix permissions model works. People think it's very complicated, because in Windows you just click a directory, go to permissions, and select the users and/or groups that have access to it, or specifically don't have access to it. But once you've admin'd a couple of Windows based file servers, you understand what a huge rat's nest that becomes, even if you're applying whatever best practices Microsoft has put out this week.
For all of those who (like me) were confused by the Hostname change at 5:15, after tinkering around with it you have to go to Services->select edit pencil for desired service (eg SMB), then change NetBIOS name to desired value (Changes will apply after next step). Next, go to Network->Global Configuration and change Hostname to desired value. Once you do, it should change the SMB name in Windows Explorer (at least it does for me on TrueNAS-13.0-U1). If you do it in the reverse order (Global then Services) it won't work right away. You would then have to restart the NAS for the change to apply.
5:11 - Missing step: If using Static IP (not DHCP), go to Network -> Global Configuration - then type in your Default Gateway and DNS Servers, then Save. Without those details, your TrueNAS system won’t be able to reach outside the local network to download updates. Thank you Jeff for all your videos. It’s odd that the GUI doesn’t warn about this when you change from the default DHCP to a static IP. I just started a new TrueNAS build and noticed this while following your guide.
Another 1st step would be how to Change the Name from TRUENAS to something of your liking, then the correct: country, time zone and then time date formats.🤔
I'd love to see a video focused on setting up jails with the proper permissions (Such as Plex for "optimizing" media for remote playback without live transcoding.) Thanks for the great tutorial!
@@ShiggitayMediaProductions Plex is more polished. The catch is the free version of Emby allows me to connect to my server from outside my home. I need a paid subscription to do that with plex. That is the only thing stopping me from trying Plex.
@@rdsii64 Totally fair statement. Yeah I have their Plex Pass that I pay $4.99 for every month.. I was not aware that Emby allowed the same functionality for free.. Interesting...
Finally... a tutorial that made sense to me. I have been looking into refurbishing a dying pc and making it a NAS/media server. I will be upgrading it with Linux instead of Windows. When I've seen other videos talk about making their own NAS, they don't show the process. Some creator said to follow prompts and were very vague. But after seeing this, I can totally do this with Gentoo.
Perfect timing. Looking to get a build of this in the next 5-10 days. Way new to the Free/True NAS side. I have a set of 4 x 8TB drives. I'm going to need to see what options I have as I don't want 20+ TB of just storage. Hoping I can break up the main pool to function in several diff ways. i.e. SMB/NFS storage, VM platform (small) and storage for other off machine VM's. Great beginner vid and I really like what you're doing. Cheers!
Me too! I've been trying to get this #*~> FreeNAS/TrueNAS thang working for 12 months now. I saw this video and thought 'YIPPEE', a straight-forward, easy to follow tutorial. I even wrote down each instruction, step by step, followed them and rechecked each step against the video but, no way, I still get: "The specified network password is incorrect" error! If I try to map to the Share (Pool) name, Windows says it can't find it. If I change to the FreeNAS Server IP address it won't connect because of the incorrect network password! I've tried the User Full Name (capitalised first letter), the TrueNAS User Name (no capital), tried the TrueNAS root login password, the TrueNAS User password setup when creating the User. Tried disabling the firewall Nope. no dice. There must be something missing, but what?
Loved the show with Tom and you from Lawrence tech. Also, Glad that you built something that people can afford. Not like someone else who spent like 9,000+ ....and then killed it ! LOL!
Well. I believe this has cemented my decision making. When I do a huge upgrade to my storage server i'm going to install TrueNAS Core on it. I just installed the 12.Beta on an old Dell R810 to play with. And I was happily surprised it didn't bitch about there being a hardware level RAID5 already configured. I know that a bunch of disks in JBOD or IT Mode is preferable for a ZFS pool but I felt like playing with this as is without messing with any of my RAID arrays just to find out what would happen. So.. Given the fact that this thing has made it so easy I think it'll be what I go with for my next big storage server upgrade. I'm currently running an old Dell R510 with an H700 RAID card and 12x4tb drives in a RAID6. Curretly running the Host OS as Windows Server with a VM inside of that running some additional tasks. so I think on the new NAS build it will JUST be a nas with some shares and maybe iSCSI targets. Also going to use the opportunity to play more with Proxmox which I have to say I am VERY impressed with so far from an admin interface point of view. Working from home these past few months has given me occasion to break out some of my old rack mount servers and just play around. And i've been going through different hypervisors. After going back and trying VMware ESXi/Vshpere and running it along some newcomers like Proxmox and CXP-ng I have to say that Proxmox, aside from being free, has been the one that I have enjoyed setting up and using the most. The only real gripe I have with it is that it has to put its own file system on whatever storage you connect it to. But, honestly, that's not going to be a huge deal for my purposes anymore as i'm going to be setting up a separate Storage server instead of trying to do everything in one repurposed box, the limitations of which were causing me some real headaches.
A+ video. Needed this some time ago when I did my Supermicro install. The "Microsoft Account" box is probably only necessary for Windows 8 which had higher security settings by default. Windows 10 does not seem to require the checkbox. But as stated "one thing I like to do" does make sense versus going through Windows and changing group policy settings.
I am glad they are keeping a FreeNAS theme for us who hate change. Love the merged codebase but I am attached to the name FreeNAS after years of use haha
What is upspeak? Upspeak, also known as high rising terminal, uptalk, rising inflection or high rising intonation, is the use of a rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences. So essentially, it makes statements sound like questions.
It won’t connect in file explorer like u said because it’s saying it won’t accept the connection or the SMB is not working and to contact the Network Administrator
I think it's worth pointing out that you can use USB drives as mirrored vdevs during the install in the same way that the SSDs were used. While it's not recommended, I've run my install that way for 3+ years without issue, so it is a viable option for someone looking to cut costs without sacrificing reliability.
Yes, I wondered that too. Jeff’s used 2 x 128GB SSD’s in RAID-Z1 (ZFS equivalent of RAID-1, I believe). Seems a waste when he said it’ll run off an 8GB Flash drive. Perhaps they were the only identical SSD’s he happened to have lying around at the time? Clearly, Jeff didn’t want to partition these SSD’s to allow part to run as a Cache Disk either - as he specified a separate 128GB NVME drive for Cache (on the motherboard or PCI bracket), for that task. Sounds like 2 x 16GB (or 32GB) Flash Drives set up as RAID with a Cache partition would work just fine (if the Cache partition takes most of the Boot RAID SSD’s to avoid disk burn). Seems like some expense could be saved here. Is that correct? I think this Storage build is intended for speed!
Have you tried setting up the zpool on the command line? I tried that with Proxmox so I could use device ids but couldn’t figure out how to use it in Proxmox. Ended up setting up with the GUI the same way you did in your tutorial and it used device names, sdc and sdd.
I'm curious. Why are you logging into the shell to change the permissions? Can't you just click on the gear on the upper right and unhide the "system users" and adjust permissions that way using the GUI and save the "programming" part? Also, I see you are setting up the "pool system dataset" as the SMB share. I thought I read that you should always make another dataset under the system dataset to help with permissions and the issues that can create later if not done by changing ownership, am I missing the meaning behind that?
Unifi server is Java based, and Ubiquiti doesn’t share the Linux distro they run on their cloud key. The best way to do it through FreeNAS would be through a virtual machine (ideally running Linux, but windows will work as well)
At 6:45 - I have two groups of hard-drives 5x2TB and 5x4TB. I want to create two different pools grouping the 2TB disks into one and the 4TB disks into the other, but once I create the first pool using the 2TB disks, I can no longer see the 4TB disks to create the second pool?
Thanks for the tutorial, got my first home storage serve working! It doesn't support IOMMU so I couldn't virtualize it with Proxmox, so the install is local. There may be another way but for now this is fine for me
@Craft Computing Hello, I followed your setup and did the step editing permissions in the shell (9:24) in the video. What is the shell command to revert this step?
I want to create a RAID 5 with 6x 3TB drives but I don't have enough space anywhere else to back up all 6 drives while I set up my first RAID 5 with 3 drives. I want to know if it's possible to set up RAID 5 with 3 HDD first, then copy some files in, and after that add more hard drives one by one without formatting or losing the existing information. Thank you very much, very great introduction tutorial
same question here, in my case it fails to create the pool because my drives were GUID partitioned before ... i really don't understand how to format in TrueNas if the creating pool automatic format option fails. Any advice on that as well? thanks
Still useful and a lot quicker than trying to read the damn instructions from iXsystems, not that their instructions are wrong or bad, lots of screenshots and info, but not all of the info in a due this, then this then this then this and you should be good to go, like this video is, nice and logical setup/config for getting that first share working. Running on 13.0-U5.3 same exact menu and order of operations for getting this working.
Hey quick question, when you set up a static address instead of using DHCP does that mean I need to set up a static address too? Will mine work with just it grabbing a DHCP lease?
I see that "shell" is linux (which I don't know) where did you get the "770" and what other options are there? Although that seems to be the same permissions I'd be looking for. What "z" options are there and what are they? For example, Z1=1 disk redundant, Z2=2 disk redundant, one more tailored to raw capacity and one more for redundancy, etc??
7 - read,write,execute. First digit is for owner, second for owner group, third for all others. So he allowed full access for owner and owners group and prevent access for all others.
I'd love to know how to install Collabora with Nextcloud on Truenas. Do we need a VM of Ubuntu for Collabora Suite? it's better collabora or onlyoffice? ...
How would I go about having a windows share and local (to the server) plex info on the same set of drives without seeing each other in the same "folder"? Do I create multiple datasets or is it all on one dataset? How do I add a cache disk after the fact or do I have to erase the pool and start over ( if that's the case how, I cant seem to find a "delete pool/dataset" option)?
I followed this video and got to the success screen and rebooted the system. Now it won't boot. It always gets stuck somewhere (often on /etc/entropy ) any ideas?
dear Boss, i have got hpe 4200 gen 9 server with 180TB SAS and 2 TB Enterprise SSD drive, i cant install the Truenas one of its drive without raid partitioning, it says no drive found during installation, after creating the raid 50(extended) from HP Storage Management and bios set to UEFI instead of legacy, Truenas installed perfectly, my question is it possible to convert from raid 50 to raid-z in truenas during add pool, or raid z2, even they are similar to raid 5 and 6. what do i miss? need your suggestion.
Hey craft I have a question and this one makes me feel dumb some what but asking just the same as do not want to mess this up at 5:15 in the time stamp you save changes making the IP permanent correct and then you skip and say now that the IP and the Host name is configured ... well you did not show how to do this and looks to be automatic on your end and well it is not on mine and I have re watched this several times as I was sure I was missing something but did not! so could youy help render this?
I am legitimately stuck at the chmod of this tutorial as I keep getting "no such file or directory." I hope you are still reading alerts or someone here can help me with this. I have redone every step of this and still cannot get past this step.
I followed your directions until I got to the shell. At which point there is a notice saying: "Warning: settings changed through the CLI are not written to the configuration database and will be reset on reboot" Not the same screen you were showing on yours.
I learned from the video but it was a bit hard: the accoustics seemed a little off - sort of like you are shouting, but changing the volume doesn't fix it. I would have liked to see you look into integration with Active Directory for those of us who have Windows Home Server and Windows Server Essentials boxes. I do have two technical queries: why are you setting a static IP address rather than creating a DHCP reservation on your DHCP server? And does the USB boot stick create a Telnet or HTTP server for headless setup without IPMI?
Hi, i'm new to NAS, I went through videos and followed all the steps and I copied the iso to my pendrive using belenaEtcher/rufus. But when I insert the pendrive to my system and boot from my pendrive its booting Windows only not trueNAS. Could someone help please???
Hi, I have watched your previous installation video of FreeNAS and I am looking forward to my first installation. Just 2 questions, 1. Is TrueNAS free like FreeNAS? 2. Does is require Ethernet cable connection all the time when installed on laptop/pc?
Can you explain a little more about RAID, should I not be using hardware RAID, but allow TrueNAS to handle this? On my Dell R630 right now I have 2x 1TB SSDs in Raid 1 for OS (TrueNAS install), and 6x 2TB HDDs in Raid 5 for data/pool...
Noob question here. I have the USB ready with TrueNas O/S ready to be installed. I have an older desktop PC with various HD's ready to be overwritten...I have a newer laptop that I'm typing this comment/question on. What I don't have is a monitor/keyboard. Once the USB is in, can I output the screen to my laptop to run the basic install options and then run the web configuation once I have an assigned IP address?
Why use the wheel group? That is synonymous with sudoers on some OSs. If TrueNAS is creating the user on the host system and adding them to wheel can the user log in using SSH and have root permissions?
So what is the point of a TrueNAS server? If I'm just a home user with a Windows laptop, gaming PC and a MacBook, is there a reason to set something like this up?
You can safely store all your movies, audio, games, etc. in a centralised storage area and link your Plex or iTunes from all your machines to the TrueNAS array. Also, you can backup each of your machines to the TrueNAS array too - for peace of mind.
why i am not getting 100mBps transfer speed while copying a file to server i am only getting 25-30mBps but while copying data from server i am getting about 55-60MBps any fix out there
I still can't get this to work. I don't know what my server name is and when I try to enter the user name and password it can't find the password. If anyone can help that would be great.
Sorry I meant to post this earlier but I figured it out. I did the name change to the server so I could find it but it didn’t help. I just did the discover network devices.
I just installed TrueNAS tonight, and the steps I took where a little different than yours here, I guess the way it's set up must've changed since 3 years ago.
How can I make absolutely sure that absolutly nobody can read, write, execute or even see my NAS other than my desktop and laptop. I would like to essentially whitelist my devices and blacklist every other device
German Style usually means it follows the German Purity Laws for beer-making. Where as a true Pils is named that way because it was a style invented in Pilsen, Czech republic. They may taste the exact same way but the purity laws will likely prevent certain ingredients found that are in a normal Pilsner.
I believe that Czech brewers follow the German Reinheitsgebot laws. However, I’m not sure beer brewed solely for export is required to observe the German Purity Laws in any country.
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8:09 I'm pretty sure that's a Firefox feature not a TrueNAS feature lol
Heh..... Yep, you're right. I only use Firefox for recording content like this, so it only showed up for me when configuring TrueNAS. I assumed it was a feature of the OS, not the browser :-D
@@CraftComputing Also a Chrome feature
@@ilyasovich _minus Edge Chromium_
@@abdulmuhaimin5274 Didn't tried it yet, but I guess so, thanks
After 2.5 years, he's back!!!
Who is this though? Great content! He works for TrueNAS I'm guessing?
@@tehcybernoob5011 Who do you mean by 'he' ?
Jeff from Craft computing is a ex-network Administrator and a free content creator.
As for the guy named 'Truenas and Freenas' tho, i don't know who he is.
Hope i could help you with your question.
Another great tutorial! Thanks for giving us that are scared to jump on the beta a preview!
Very happy with it thus far. There are a couple very cool features I'm doing videos on in the next couple weeks.
I guess they will fix small things eventually, the moment you have to drop to command line there is a problem with the software, seems an easy fix really (a minor thing that's never been fixed by a gui tick box)
Craft Computing can’t wait! I’m still a Proxmox newb. Love seeing the “right@ way to do things rather than guessing or scouring the interwebs.
lee x good to know!
8:52 Nononononnononono. Leave primary user at craft, use aux groups for additional group memberships. I mean, if you only have 1 user on your TrueNAS Core machine, that's probably okay...? Maybe? But when you need more than 1 user, you really want to dive into the permissions a little bit. For a basic, multi-user TrueNAS Core setup:
Step 0. Create your datasets. This is the step that everyone seems to ignore. Don't share out your base dataset. Create additional datasets for different purposes, like home directories, document file shares vs video file shares, etc. This will make your life so much easier down the road with permission, snapshots, etc.
Step 1. Create three groups, lowsec, medsec, highsec. The highsec group also gets medsec and lowsec. The medsec group also gets lowsec. This way you only need to assign one security group to each user, and they have access to all the things at their security level and below.
Step 2. Create your users. Give them an aux group of lowsec, medsec, or highsec. Make sure you give them a home directory to work with. Again, this will make your life easier down the road.
Step 3. In, I believe it is Storage, you have the option to set the owner, owning group, and permissions for each dataset.
Step 4-n. Set up your network share(s)
Step n+1. Have a beer.
This is a pretty basic permissions setup for a NAS. So much data these days does not fit into a typical "low/medium/high" security model. It's far more nuanced than that. However, this should be effective for a good chunk of the home and home office users. But it's definitely worth while knowing how the *nix permissions model works. People think it's very complicated, because in Windows you just click a directory, go to permissions, and select the users and/or groups that have access to it, or specifically don't have access to it. But once you've admin'd a couple of Windows based file servers, you understand what a huge rat's nest that becomes, even if you're applying whatever best practices Microsoft has put out this week.
For all of those who (like me) were confused by the Hostname change at 5:15, after tinkering around with it you have to go to Services->select edit pencil for desired service (eg SMB), then change NetBIOS name to desired value (Changes will apply after next step). Next, go to Network->Global Configuration and change Hostname to desired value. Once you do, it should change the SMB name in Windows Explorer (at least it does for me on TrueNAS-13.0-U1). If you do it in the reverse order (Global then Services) it won't work right away. You would then have to restart the NAS for the change to apply.
Huge help! Thanks for clearing this up. Fantastic tutorial otherwise.
This tutorial was fantastic, but I could not for the life of me get it to work. With this comment I was. Thank you kind stranger!
5:11 - Missing step: If using Static IP (not DHCP), go to Network -> Global Configuration - then type in your Default Gateway and DNS Servers, then Save.
Without those details, your TrueNAS system won’t be able to reach outside the local network to download updates.
Thank you Jeff for all your videos. It’s odd that the GUI doesn’t warn about this when you change from the default DHCP to a static IP. I just started a new TrueNAS build and noticed this while following your guide.
Another 1st step would be how to Change the Name from TRUENAS to something of your liking, then the correct: country, time zone and then time date formats.🤔
This is the kind of video that I like, save to my favorites and put in my "to do" list
I'd love to see a video focused on setting up jails with the proper permissions (Such as Plex for "optimizing" media for remote playback without live transcoding.) Thanks for the great tutorial!
I would love to see the same thing for emby.
@@rdsii64 Bleh I tried Emby and I didn't like it... Plex is much more polished... Yes it's newer, but still.
@@ShiggitayMediaProductions Plex is more polished. The catch is the free version of Emby allows me to connect to my server from outside my home. I need a paid subscription to do that with plex. That is the only thing stopping me from trying Plex.
@@rdsii64 Totally fair statement. Yeah I have their Plex Pass that I pay $4.99 for every month.. I was not aware that Emby allowed the same functionality for free.. Interesting...
@@ShiggitayMediaProductions +Plex sends Data to the Mothership, Emby wont :)
This is the most straight forward tutorial on truenas. No bs just straight to the point....
Your explanation on Wheel and how to chmod was 10/10 good sir. Permissions questions plague the FreeNAS reddit.
You saved my life with this tutorial. I recovered almost 3 years of data with your help. Thank you!!
You're a bit quick when explaining but I enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing. And also, a German pilsner is about the only beer I enjoy. 😊
Just circling back around to this video again. I have used this quite a few times and just wanted to thank you again!
Finally... a tutorial that made sense to me. I have been looking into refurbishing a dying pc and making it a NAS/media server. I will be upgrading it with Linux instead of Windows.
When I've seen other videos talk about making their own NAS, they don't show the process. Some creator said to follow prompts and were very vague. But after seeing this, I can totally do this with Gentoo.
Fantastic...im using this for my Veterinary Hospital, Thanks a lot
NICE, was going to load it up in the next day or two, always nice to see a quick simple setup video like this.
Flawless tutorial, could not ask for better. Thank you!
You make things look so easy!
i love this is now homework study and not hobby anymore. like i needed aother reason to watch Geoff's videos :D
I just stumbled on you rpage as i was trying to use truenas and your tutorials are easy to follow and understand.
This video should be in your FreeNas playlist…I couldn’t find it. 😉👍 P.S. thank you for your spectacular videos and beer recommendations. Love them!
Looking forward to more. Keep em coming! Short and sweet tutorials.
Perfect timing. Looking to get a build of this in the next 5-10 days. Way new to the Free/True NAS side. I have a set of 4 x 8TB drives. I'm going to need to see what options I have as I don't want 20+ TB of just storage. Hoping I can break up the main pool to function in several diff ways. i.e. SMB/NFS storage, VM platform (small) and storage for other off machine VM's. Great beginner vid and I really like what you're doing. Cheers!
I Love how on youtube all works well but when I try it for myself all hell brakes lose
Same here
Me too!
I've been trying to get this #*~> FreeNAS/TrueNAS thang working for 12 months now. I saw this video and thought 'YIPPEE', a straight-forward, easy to follow tutorial.
I even wrote down each instruction, step by step, followed them and rechecked each step against the video but, no way, I still get: "The specified network password is incorrect" error!
If I try to map to the Share (Pool) name, Windows says it can't find it. If I change to the FreeNAS Server IP address it won't connect because of the incorrect network password!
I've tried the User Full Name (capitalised first letter), the TrueNAS User Name (no capital), tried the TrueNAS root login password, the TrueNAS User password setup when creating the User. Tried disabling the firewall
Nope. no dice.
There must be something missing, but what?
Try to connect with "add a network location" instead of "map network drive" and make sure your user has windows credentials
Loved the show with Tom and you from Lawrence tech. Also, Glad that you built something that people can afford. Not like someone else who spent like 9,000+ ....and then killed it ! LOL!
I am sure he meant it differently... but what he said was: you don't need a swap partition if you use a zfs cache...
Thank you very much ! Very useful tutorial ! the installation on my server went flawless !
THANK YOU. I’ve been waiting for this!
How do I create a public share so no login is required from all of my windows machines?
Well. I believe this has cemented my decision making. When I do a huge upgrade to my storage server i'm going to install TrueNAS Core on it. I just installed the 12.Beta on an old Dell R810 to play with. And I was happily surprised it didn't bitch about there being a hardware level RAID5 already configured. I know that a bunch of disks in JBOD or IT Mode is preferable for a ZFS pool but I felt like playing with this as is without messing with any of my RAID arrays just to find out what would happen. So.. Given the fact that this thing has made it so easy I think it'll be what I go with for my next big storage server upgrade. I'm currently running an old Dell R510 with an H700 RAID card and 12x4tb drives in a RAID6. Curretly running the Host OS as Windows Server with a VM inside of that running some additional tasks. so I think on the new NAS build it will JUST be a nas with some shares and maybe iSCSI targets. Also going to use the opportunity to play more with Proxmox which I have to say I am VERY impressed with so far from an admin interface point of view. Working from home these past few months has given me occasion to break out some of my old rack mount servers and just play around. And i've been going through different hypervisors. After going back and trying VMware ESXi/Vshpere and running it along some newcomers like Proxmox and CXP-ng I have to say that Proxmox, aside from being free, has been the one that I have enjoyed setting up and using the most. The only real gripe I have with it is that it has to put its own file system on whatever storage you connect it to. But, honestly, that's not going to be a huge deal for my purposes anymore as i'm going to be setting up a separate Storage server instead of trying to do everything in one repurposed box, the limitations of which were causing me some real headaches.
A+ video. Needed this some time ago when I did my Supermicro install.
The "Microsoft Account" box is probably only necessary for Windows 8 which had higher security settings by default. Windows 10 does not seem to require the checkbox. But as stated "one thing I like to do" does make sense versus going through Windows and changing group policy settings.
Thanks just enough information not to get lost and just enough to get the job done
I am glad they are keeping a FreeNAS theme for us who hate change.
Love the merged codebase but I am attached to the name FreeNAS after years of use haha
Does TrueNAS Core actually auto-generate passwords for users? That looks like the standard Firefox password generator dialog around 8:07.
yea it's web browser
....yeah, that was just Firefox. 😶
Fantastic clearcut no bullshit guide. Love it.
What is upspeak?
Upspeak, also known as high rising terminal, uptalk, rising inflection or high rising intonation, is the use of a rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences. So essentially, it makes statements sound like questions.
Great tutorial, but that was killing me by the end.
Excellent video, way better than most on this subject. Genuine tutorial👍
It won’t connect in file explorer like u said because it’s saying it won’t accept the connection or the SMB is not working and to contact the Network Administrator
I think it's worth pointing out that you can use USB drives as mirrored vdevs during the install in the same way that the SSDs were used.
While it's not recommended, I've run my install that way for 3+ years without issue, so it is a viable option for someone looking to cut costs without sacrificing reliability.
It also saves on SATA ports if you are using a PC Motherboard. :-)
Hi just curious the insstalation takes us hardly 1 gb or something storage isn't 2 ssd for installation is just overkill
Yes, I wondered that too. Jeff’s used 2 x 128GB SSD’s in RAID-Z1 (ZFS equivalent of RAID-1, I believe). Seems a waste when he said it’ll run off an 8GB Flash drive. Perhaps they were the only identical SSD’s he happened to have lying around at the time?
Clearly, Jeff didn’t want to partition these SSD’s to allow part to run as a Cache Disk either - as he specified a separate 128GB NVME drive for Cache (on the motherboard or PCI bracket), for that task.
Sounds like 2 x 16GB (or 32GB) Flash Drives set up as RAID with a Cache partition would work just fine (if the Cache partition takes most of the Boot RAID SSD’s to avoid disk burn).
Seems like some expense could be saved here. Is that correct? I think this Storage build is intended for speed!
1:17 when doctor says you can only drink a glass of beer a day
Have you tried setting up the zpool on the command line? I tried that with Proxmox so I could use device ids but couldn’t figure out how to use it in Proxmox. Ended up setting up with the GUI the same way you did in your tutorial and it used device names, sdc and sdd.
Great Freen.... I mean Truenas run-through man
I'm curious. Why are you logging into the shell to change the permissions? Can't you just click on the gear on the upper right and unhide the "system users" and adjust permissions that way using the GUI and save the "programming" part?
Also, I see you are setting up the "pool system dataset" as the SMB share. I thought I read that you should always make another dataset under the system dataset to help with permissions and the issues that can create later if not done by changing ownership, am I missing the meaning behind that?
awesome! thanks. I just finished to set up my truenas server
Hello, please record a video of transmission installation in truenas 12.0 !!!
Great tutorial. As mentioned before how to install Plex, also how to set Unifi server
Unifi server is Java based, and Ubiquiti doesn’t share the Linux distro they run on their cloud key. The best way to do it through FreeNAS would be through a virtual machine (ideally running Linux, but windows will work as well)
Plex is very easy to setup, there’s a plex plugin in FreeNAS. I did need to follow a tutorial to setup the jails, but overall it was an easy setup!
Great tutorial !
Spacebar is how you select a drive. Got snagged on that part.
At 6:45 - I have two groups of hard-drives 5x2TB and 5x4TB. I want to create two different pools grouping the 2TB disks into one and the 4TB disks into the other, but once I create the first pool using the 2TB disks, I can no longer see the 4TB disks to create the second pool?
why...are you changing the share permissions in the CLI instead if the GUI....as designed
I think there might have been some extra things he wanted to change in the CLI which aren’t in the GUI yet.
my gosh thank you! finally a good tutorial
Thanks for the tutorial, got my first home storage serve working! It doesn't support IOMMU so I couldn't virtualize it with Proxmox, so the install is local. There may be another way but for now this is fine for me
@Craft Computing Hello, I followed your setup and did the step editing permissions in the shell (9:24) in the video. What is the shell command to revert this step?
I want to create a RAID 5 with 6x 3TB drives but I don't have enough space anywhere else to back up all 6 drives while I set up my first RAID 5 with 3 drives.
I want to know if it's possible to set up RAID 5 with 3 HDD first, then copy some files in, and after that add more hard drives one by one without formatting or losing the existing information.
Thank you very much, very great introduction tutorial
same question here, in my case it fails to create the pool because my drives were GUID partitioned before ... i really don't understand how to format in TrueNas if the creating pool automatic format option fails.
Any advice on that as well? thanks
My hard drives are listed in the disks tab however they are not listed when trying to create a pool. Any suggestions?
it's work! =). I´ve just needed change the config of user propriety (root -> newuser) with "chown" command. Thankyou 😀!
Still useful and a lot quicker than trying to read the damn instructions from iXsystems, not that their instructions are wrong or bad, lots of screenshots and info, but not all of the info in a due this, then this then this then this and you should be good to go, like this video is, nice and logical setup/config for getting that first share working.
Running on 13.0-U5.3 same exact menu and order of operations for getting this working.
thanks for help on this simple share video
Hey quick question, when you set up a static address instead of using DHCP does that mean I need to set up a static address too? Will mine work with just it grabbing a DHCP lease?
Looking forward to TrueNAS Scale :)
Does TrueNas has built-in redundancy when setting up the drives? Thanks!
Why go through creating a USB if you have IPMI when most of them offer a way to add the ISO to your device through the GUI?
So, anything i put on such a network share, it is Ransomeware proof? Since it has read-only access, it should be immutable, correct?
I see that "shell" is linux (which I don't know) where did you get the "770" and what other options are there? Although that seems to be the same permissions I'd be looking for.
What "z" options are there and what are they? For example, Z1=1 disk redundant, Z2=2 disk redundant, one more tailored to raw capacity and one more for redundancy, etc??
7 - read,write,execute. First digit is for owner, second for owner group, third for all others. So he allowed full access for owner and owners group and prevent access for all others.
What enclosure or server hardware is this? I'm looking to create a larger NAS like this and would love some input on hardware. Thanks
I'd love to know how to install Collabora with Nextcloud on Truenas. Do we need a VM of Ubuntu for Collabora Suite? it's better collabora or onlyoffice? ...
How would I go about having a windows share and local (to the server) plex info on the same set of drives without seeing each other in the same "folder"? Do I create multiple datasets or is it all on one dataset? How do I add a cache disk after the fact or do I have to erase the pool and start over ( if that's the case how, I cant seem to find a "delete pool/dataset" option)?
Not sure if you have covered it already. Could you do a tut on installing a VM while running TrueNAS?
I followed this video and got to the success screen and rebooted the system. Now it won't boot. It always gets stuck somewhere (often on /etc/entropy ) any ideas?
dear Boss, i have got hpe 4200 gen 9 server with 180TB SAS and 2 TB Enterprise SSD drive, i cant install the Truenas one of its drive without raid partitioning, it says no drive found during installation, after creating the raid 50(extended) from HP Storage Management and bios set to UEFI instead of legacy, Truenas installed perfectly, my question is it possible to convert from raid 50 to raid-z in truenas during add pool, or raid z2, even they are similar to raid 5 and 6. what do i miss? need your suggestion.
Hey craft I have a question and this one makes me feel dumb some what but asking just the same as do not want to mess this up at 5:15 in the time stamp you save changes making the IP permanent correct and then you skip and say now that the IP and the Host name is configured ... well you did not show how to do this and looks to be automatic on your end and well it is not on mine and I have re watched this several times as I was sure I was missing something but did not! so could youy help render this?
I am legitimately stuck at the chmod of this tutorial as I keep getting "no such file or directory." I hope you are still reading alerts or someone here can help me with this. I have redone every step of this and still cannot get past this step.
You're right. I didn't believe its been 2 some years. * re-evaluates if I should continue my patreon * 😉
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Good detailed but quick guide. Loved it!
I followed your directions until I got to the shell. At which point there is a notice saying:
"Warning: settings changed through the CLI are not written to the configuration database and will be reset on reboot"
Not the same screen you were showing on yours.
Great job Jeff, thanks so much for the video!!
I learned from the video but it was a bit hard: the accoustics seemed a little off - sort of like you are shouting, but changing the volume doesn't fix it. I would have liked to see you look into integration with Active Directory for those of us who have Windows Home Server and Windows Server Essentials boxes.
I do have two technical queries: why are you setting a static IP address rather than creating a DHCP reservation on your DHCP server? And does the USB boot stick create a Telnet or HTTP server for headless setup without IPMI?
for me chrome says the connection is not private and Truenas says that its not powered on
what is going on here
You do not create a dataset for the SMB share, Is it better this way or is it better create a dataset and inside create the smb share?
Many thanks for your video. I have an HP PROLIANT SERVER with 2 Disks RAID 1 - 3 TB each. On POOL don't show any disk. What could be wrong?
Hi Jeff, Q: When setting permissions for your new share (9:25) is there a way to do that for a custom group that you greate?? Thanks Geoff
Hi, i'm new to NAS, I went through videos and followed all the steps and I copied the iso to my pendrive using belenaEtcher/rufus. But when I insert the pendrive to my system and boot from my pendrive its booting Windows only not trueNAS. Could someone help please???
Is there away not to have to use the shell to fix the permissions issue. I can't seem to get it to work
Hi, I have watched your previous installation video of FreeNAS and I am looking forward to my first installation. Just 2 questions,
1. Is TrueNAS free like FreeNAS?
2. Does is require Ethernet cable connection all the time when installed on laptop/pc?
Can you explain a little more about RAID, should I not be using hardware RAID, but allow TrueNAS to handle this?
On my Dell R630 right now I have 2x 1TB SSDs in Raid 1 for OS (TrueNAS install), and 6x 2TB HDDs in Raid 5 for data/pool...
So why didn't you just make a new dataset and set the acl on that? No cli needed. I think you did that wrong and inefficient.
I almost bet the CLI method is faster. So it's probably MORE efficient. There's more than one way to do things the right way.
Actually works fine either way but yeah didn't get why not create a "share" dataset (as recommended by iX) instead of using the whole pool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@glmchn the whole pool is not recommended because what if you want different services for the pool, such as block devices for iscsi or nfs shares?
Noob question here. I have the USB ready with TrueNas O/S ready to be installed. I have an older desktop PC with various HD's ready to be overwritten...I have a newer laptop that I'm typing this comment/question on. What I don't have is a monitor/keyboard. Once the USB is in, can I output the screen to my laptop to run the basic install options and then run the web configuation once I have an assigned IP address?
I think it's called a "headless" install? (please go easy on me)....
Why use the wheel group? That is synonymous with sudoers on some OSs. If TrueNAS is creating the user on the host system and adding them to wheel can the user log in using SSH and have root permissions?
How do you make it boot from the ssd, I have the same setup but after installation it never boots from the ssd
So what is the point of a TrueNAS server? If I'm just a home user with a Windows laptop, gaming PC and a MacBook, is there a reason to set something like this up?
You can safely store all your movies, audio, games, etc. in a centralised storage area and link your Plex or iTunes from all your machines to the TrueNAS array.
Also, you can backup each of your machines to the TrueNAS array too - for peace of mind.
why i am not getting 100mBps transfer speed
while copying a file to server i am only getting 25-30mBps but while copying data from server i am getting about 55-60MBps any fix out there
I still can't get this to work. I don't know what my server name is and when I try to enter the user name and password it can't find the password. If anyone can help that would be great.
Same issue here. Cannot map share in Windows.
Didn’t you give your server a distinctive name (like TrueNAS-12TB-Z1-Server), during install/setup?
I think you need to go look in Configuration -> Global -> Hostname to set your server name.
Sorry I meant to post this earlier but I figured it out. I did the name change to the server so I could find it but it didn’t help. I just did the discover network devices.
I just installed TrueNAS tonight, and the steps I took where a little different than yours here, I guess the way it's set up must've changed since 3 years ago.
How can I make absolutely sure that absolutly nobody can read, write, execute or even see my NAS other than my desktop and laptop. I would like to essentially whitelist my devices and blacklist every other device
German Style usually means it follows the German Purity Laws for beer-making. Where as a true Pils is named that way because it was a style invented in Pilsen, Czech republic. They may taste the exact same way but the purity laws will likely prevent certain ingredients found that are in a normal Pilsner.
I believe that Czech brewers follow the German Reinheitsgebot laws.
However, I’m not sure beer brewed solely for export is required to observe the German Purity Laws in any country.
Jeff's new job and drunk before lunch now lol
Can you make a video about the new feature called 'Fusion Pool'?
It's been 2.5 years since your last TrueNAS tutorial, just FYI. TrueNAS Scale?
Whatever i do i am not able to access the samba share. UI used the created user name and password in Truenas. Someone please help